Helen Haines updates: PM says person in custody after alleged attack on Helen Haines
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Helen Haines updates: PM says person in custody after alleged attack on Helen Haines

Independent MP Helen Haines has been injured in an incident involving a vehicle outside her electorate office in Wangaratta, in regional Victoria. Follow updatesAlbanese says his thoughts and his prayers are with Haines, her family and her community.Helen Haines is incredibly hardworking. She is fiercely intelligent, but most importantly, she’s just thoroughly decent human being, full of integrity...

Contractor injured as brief fire breaks out at Hong Kong Cultural Centre
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Contractor injured as brief fire breaks out at Hong Kong Cultural Centre

A brief No 2 alarm fire broke out at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui on Monday, leaving a contractor injured after she received an electric shock. The Fire Services Department said it received a fire alarm at the venue at 11.23am. When firefighters arrived three minutes later, the fire had already been extinguished. “After investigation, a female staff member was found to have been ...

Helen Haines updates: Independent MP injured in incident outside regional Victoria office

Helen Haines updates: Independent MP injured in incident outside regional Victoria office

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The independent MP Helen Haines has been injured in an incident involving a vehicle outside of her electorate office in Wangaratta, in regional Victoria. Follow updatesNationals frontbencher Michael McCormack, whose electorate shares a border with Haines’ has written on social media:Sending my love and best wishes to Helen Haines for a full and speedy recovery. Such awful news. Continue reading...

Chinese discovery of doughnut-like topology at tipping points breaks physics convention

Chinese discovery of doughnut-like topology at tipping points breaks physics convention

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Chinese physicists have discovered that a tipping point – a threshold where a physical system rapidly shifts states – can possess a smooth mathematical structure resembling a doughnut’s hole, challenging a belief that the two phenomena must be studied separately. For decades, mainstream physicists have mostly treated critical phenomena, which describe how physical systems change at critical points...

Macron refuses minister’s resignation after huge protests rock France – Europe live

Macron refuses minister’s resignation after huge protests rock France – Europe live

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Interior minister Laurent Nuñez should stay to ensure chain of command with police and security forces, says presidentMacron criticises ‘unbridled violence’ after 2,400 arrests across FranceFrench president Emmanuel Macron has declined interior minister Laurent Nuñez’s offer to resign after widespread riots over the weekend, despite “failures in anticipation and intelligence” that were deemed to w...

Mother assessed as posing no immediate risk to others three weeks before Elizabeth Struhs’ manslaughter, inquest hears

Mother assessed as posing no immediate risk to others three weeks before Elizabeth Struhs’ manslaughter, inquest hears

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Queensland correctional services officer did not have access to details of Kerrie Struhs’ past offending which included child neglectGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastElizabeth Struhs’ mother, Kerrie, was assessed by correctional services as being of no immediate risk to others by an officer who had no access to her offending history, three weeks before she caused her eigh...

France hit by debt sell-off as protests unnerve investors

France hit by debt sell-off as protests unnerve investors

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After Macron condemned ‘unbridled violence’, difference between French and German 10-year borrowing costs widensBusiness live – latest updatesFrance was hit by a fresh wave of selling in its bond and stock markets on Monday after violent protests over the weekend left public buildings burned, hundreds of shops looted and thousands of arrests across the country.Almost 2,400 people have been arreste...

Can Europe beat the cost-of-living crisis? Take our poll

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From supermarket shelves and energy bills to housing and education, rising prices are putting pressure on households across Europe. But which sectors are being hit hardest by inflation? What is the EU doing to ease the burden on consumers?

Can Europe beat the cost-of-living crisis? Take our poll.

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From supermarket shelves and energy bills to housing and education, rising prices are putting pressure on households across Europe. But which sectors are being hit hardest by inflation? What is the EU doing to ease the burden on consumers?

French protests over declining school standards amid China catch-up ambitions turn violent

French protests over declining school standards amid China catch-up ambitions turn violent

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France experienced a weekend of shocks as weeks-long high school student protests for better study environments were hijacked by violent looters across major cities, angered by rising fuel prices and an ongoing cost of living crisis. While the rallies saw hundreds of thousands protest peacefully, clashes over the weekend led to chaotic scenes: hundreds of shops were pillaged, the historic city hal...